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Success Tends To Go Not To The Person Who Is Error-free, Because He Also Tends To Be Risk-averse. Rather It Goes To The Person Who Recognizes That Life Is Pretty Much A Percentage Business. It Isn't Making Mistakes That's Critical; It's Correcting Them And Getting On With The Principal Task.

You Will Launch Many Projects, But Have Time To Finish Only A Few. So Think, Plan, Develop, Launch And Tap Good People To Be Responsible. Give Them Authority And Hold Them Accountable. Trying To Do Too Much Yourself Creates A Bottleneck.

I Am Not Going To Give You A Number For It Because It's Not My Business To Do Intelligent Work.

Don't Do Or Say Things You Would Not Like To See On The Front Page Of The Washington Post.

They Will Do More Whether We Do What We're Doing Or Whether We Don't Do What We're Doing. And The Idea That You Could Appease Them [terrorists] By Stopping Doing What We're Doing Or Some Implication That By Doing What We're Doing We're Inciting Them To Attack Us Is Just Utter Nonsense. It's Just - It's Kind Of Like Feeding An Alligator, Hoping It Eats You Last.